Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams : a history of America's romance with illegal drugs
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Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams : a history of America's romance with illegal drugs
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
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Originally published: New York : Scribner, c1996
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-486) and index
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"Fascinating, well researched and finely honed...This is a must read."--Judge Peggy F. Hora, 'California Bench' Once upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins 'Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams', Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the postwar era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving through the "flower power" 1960s to the cocaine and crack explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
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